Dr Lindsay Pennington, NIHR Career Development Fellow, Principal Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK

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Dr Lindsay Pennington, NIHR Career Development
Fellow, Principal Research Associate, Newcastle
University, UK
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• Speech and language therapist
• Communication skills of children with cerebral
  palsy (CP)
• Effects of motor disorder on communication
  development
• Can we predict the severity of speech disorder in
  CP?
• Can therapy improve children's communication?
• What causes the difficulties some children with
  CP have with developing literacy?

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Early career

• Clinician
• MSc
• Research Associate, GOSH
• Development of training programme to promote use
  of augmentative and alternative communication
  (AAC)

GOS Neurodisability team
families
SLTs
education staff
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PhD

• Nursing and Allied Health PhD Fellowship,
  Department of Health
• Impact of speech intelligibility on parent-child
  interaction
• Speech and motor disorder
• Parent-child interaction restricted,
• Children can use more skills
• given opportunity
• Motor disorder
• Restricted development of
• communication
• Expansion of network clinicians
• Newcastle, Sheffield, Liverpool
• Publications, presentations

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Back on track?

• EBP teaching to health professionals
• No work done on implementation of research by
  SLTs
• PI on NW Regional NHS project grant
• Collaboration with Chris Burton, Hazel Roddam
  (UCLAN), Ian Russell and Christine Godfrey (York)
• Experience of leading cluster trial, managing
  researchers

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Clinical research??
Bursary Systematic review
Collaborations with SLT researchers in Manchester
Collaborations with SLT and AAC researchers
internationally
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• Move to Department of Speech,
• Newcastle University
• Collaborators HSR, SLT, Child Health
• Post Doc
• PI on project grants from
• medical research charities

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Post DocPhase II study parent training

• Does parent child interaction change after
  training?
• Parents
• Children
• Is training useful and acceptable to parents?
• Therapists views on provision of training in NHS

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Phase II study parent training

• Does parent child interaction change after
  training?
• Parents ?
• Children ?
• Is training useful and acceptable to parents? ?
• Therapists views on provision of training in NHS
• Effective, long term change, useful, valued by
  families
• Expensive, difficult to arrange
• RCT in NHS is not feasible

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Post DocPhase II study of dysarthria
intervention

• Could dysarthria therapy work for children?
• Does intelligibility increase after intervention?
• Does voice quality change?
• Is the treatment acceptable?
• Is a pragmatic trial feasible?

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Post DocPhase II study of dysarthria
intervention

• Could dysarthria therapy work for children?
• Does intelligibility increase after intervention?
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• Does voice quality change? Pitch and volume
  steadier
• Is the treatment acceptable? Yes
• Is a pragmatic trial feasible? Yes

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Career Development Fellowship

• Lead research three streams of research
• Epidemiology
• Prediction of speech disorder severity at 5 yrs
• Dysarthria intervention
• 2nd Phase II study, younger children
• 3rd Phase II study, intervention provided by SLTA
• Pragmatic trial
• Literacy
• Effects of type of speech disorder
• Effects of cortical visual disturbance

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• Training in leadership
• Develop new collaborations
• Funding to attend conferences raising profile
• Time to plan strategy for coming years

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